OPSWAT, founded in 2002 by Benny Czarny, is a San Francisco-based software company that provides software engineers and information technology workers with security software development tools and services.
OPSWAT provides a security software interoperability certification program for application types, including:
Although the program shares the idea of software certification with testing agencies like ICSA Labs, West Coast Labs, Virus Bulletin and AV-Comparatives, unlike those agencies it does not certify applications for their efficacy, but rather for their level of interoperability and manageability with third-party technology. The program, therefore, is not in competition with anti-malware testing companies and has, in fact, formed partnerships with several of them.